Hi, I’m Ilpo aka Resound. I’m here to help help you improve and succeed as an independent music creator and an artist.

I’VE GOT YOUR BACK

It’s a fantastic time to be making music. You have so many possibilities. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to succeed and thrive. We’re facing new kinds of challenges. Our lives are busy. It’s difficult to focus. We feel more confused than ever. I know all about it. I’ve grinded to a halt several times. But I never gave up.

I’m here to share what I’m learning through my own experience. I have 20+ years behind me in music production, DJing, mixing, mastering and expert work, but I’m still trying new things and learning every day. Below you’ll find some of the record labels and companies I’ve worked with closely.

LET’S GET YOU STARTED

I’ve got a whole bunch of stuff ready for you. Before you move further, here is my first lesson to you: Information without action is useless.

So enjoy your time learning. But then… It’s time to do the work. Figure out what works for you in practice.

Work

Smarter

Sound

Better

Craft

Confidently

Featured Book

Robert Greene: Mastery

Since discovering this book for the first time in 2014, I’ve listened to the audio version 3 times and also bought a hard copy. I constantly return to it for reference and inspiration. I think that’s good enough for an introduction!

Compression has become an integral ingredient of most music these days. At the same time it remains somewhat a secret science – a commonly misunderstood one. It’s a great pleasure to have the mastering engineer Barry Gardner from SafeandSound online mastering services to talk to us about how to learn compression. During his long career in music Barry has worked with people such as Terry Callier, Ronnie Wood, Craig David, Kano, Chick Corea and many others. Needless to say he knows his stuff. Time to pay attention.

I am an avid fan of the Native Instruments Maschine. I just love it. What strikes me the most is how it can be used in so many different ways. I’ve picked up a lot by watching videos on Youtube and observing how other people are using it. There are tons of Maschine tutorial videos out there. HOWEVER… That’s the problem.

Youtube has become infested with poorly produced crap “tutorials” that don’t really offer anything of interest to most people.

This is a guest post by Kim Lajoie. I recently came across his blog and felt very much connected to his way of thinking. So I invited him to write a little something for me and here we go! I’ll let Kim take it from here. Why should breaking workflow become a part of your workflow? [Read more…] about Breaking Workflow